Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 160, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 6, 2000Erie County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2000, 10:17 PM EDT for Erie County, Ohio. It was in force for 43 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 6, 2000, 10:17 PM EDT (02:17 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2000, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Erie County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 6, 10:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Sandusky, OH	Thunderstorm winds downed many trees in Sandusky, Berlin Heights and Vermillion. A billboard sign was also toppled near Sandusky.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 6, 9:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1106 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 928 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 070217
SVRCLE
OHC033-043-077-070300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1017 PM EDT SUN AUG 6 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CRAWFORD COUNTY IN OHIO...
  ERIE COUNTY IN OHIO...
  HURON COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 1100 PM EDT

* AT 1017 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 14 MILES NORTH OF
  MILAN TO 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BUCYRUS...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
  FROM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF SANDUSKY TO 8 MILES NORTH OF MARION...
  MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  WILLARD
  WAKEMAN
  PLYMOUTH
  NORWALK
  NEW WASHINGTON
  NEW LONDON
  MILAN
  GALION
  CRESTLINE
  CHATFIELD
  BUCYRUS

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
W1ILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN CLEVELAND.

$$

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 6, 9:30 PM EDT, 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 9:30 PM EDT, 47 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
930 PM EDT SUN AUG 6 2000

WL COMBINE UPDATE FOR WATCH WITH NORMAL EVG UPDATE.  IN SHORT WL UP
POPS TO CATAGORICAL MOST OF OHIO AND KWP LKLY XTRM NE OH AND NWRN
PA.  NO OTHER MAJ CHGS ATTM.

.CLE...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THRU 10 AM MON SRN THIRD CWA.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 6, 8:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas, Wood	59 min
Aug 6, 9:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Wood	34 min
Aug 6, 9:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa, Sandusky	55 min
Aug 6, 9:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	63 min
Aug 6, 9:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Seneca, Wyandot	55 min
Aug 6, 10:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Huron	43 min
Aug 6, 10:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	48 min
Aug 6, 10:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland, Lorain	51 min
Aug 6, 11:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina, Wayne	42 min
Aug 6, 11:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	54 min
Aug 6, 11:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark, Summit	57 min
Aug 6, 11:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Geauga, Portage	59 min
Aug 6, 11:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Trumbull	62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.